The Blood Of The Cross

Shall we pray.

Heavenly Father, we are so grateful that You’ve allowed us to come together with this gathering of people, Lord, to glorify Your great Name and have fellowship one with another, knowing it is true that the prophet said we don’t come together for fellowship, but to be taught, to know the Word of God.

And yet, Lord, there is a fellowship around the Word as we talk the Word together, and that is a fellowship divine. It brings us great joy and exhilaration, Lord, to have the people here with us tonight, coming from afar, coming, Lord, for that one purpose, to fellowship around the Word, to learn of You, Lord, to be led of Your Spirit and we’re grateful for it.

And it makes us think what it is going to be like, Lord, when the Bride comes together, especially those at the Seventh Church Age, when Brother Branham appears and the saints are gathered together, seeing who made it and hear the wonderful words of the Kingdom and see the things of God, whatever You have prepared for us, Lord, even before we leave here, joining us in immortality, all the others coming and going up to the Wedding Supper.

This Lord is a little taste thereof, Father, and we thank You for it. We so appreciate Your goodness that we can come together, Lord, to really look at Your Word and see our inheritance and see what You’ve given us, to see all these things that the prophet brought out, and knowing who we are Lord, it makes us to realize that as Brother Branham said, “The Bride’s going to know who she is before the Rapture.”

He also said that if ten people in one place had that mind of Christ there’d be a Rapture. And we can understand that, Lord, because it would be such tremendous and beautiful revelation and worship in You, Father. And that’s what we want tonight.

We know grace abounds toward us. May we receive that grace with thankfulness and joy in our hearts and cherish it, treasure it, and let You water it, Lord.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen.

You may be seated.

Now, tonight we’re talking on The Blood of the Cross, and of course you know I read quite a bit of my notes in order to try to get my thoughts across as accurately as I can and then comment on it as we go along.

Now there are several Scriptures with which I wish to deal in order to bring to your attention that modern fundamentalism differs from the truth of our revelation, based on Brother Branhams Message, as pertaining to the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, Brother Branham said that I’m not trying to preach this to be different. Because to preach something to be different immediately brings a schism in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The fact of the matter is though all members differ, even as the human body members differ. The human body has only one life, it has only one brain, it has only one guidance, it has only one birth, it has only one destiny, it has only one ending.

So therefore, if the hand should say, “Well, I am not of the body, because I’m not the eye.”

Or the eye should pick itself up and say, “Well, now just a minute, I can see and therefore I lead, and therefore I am a wonderful instrument far above the hand.” That is a fallacy, because the eye does not see.

And the brain could say, “Well, now just a minute.”

Or the nerve could say, the optic nerve, “Now, just a minute. You’re just nothing but an orb floating around there in the fluid and you cause the body a lot of trouble if even a little gnat gets into it, what are you blabbing about? I am the optic nerve. And you wouldn’t mean one thing to this body except for me.”

And the brain says, “Now hold it. What are you talking about? You mean to tell me, that you’re bigger than the eye? Now, if it weren’t for me to gather the electrical impulses and all those things in there, well, you wouldn’t be anywhere.”

Now suddenly the soul speaks up. And says, “Hey, just a minute. What are you talking about? You’d be nothing but a dead bunch of junk if it weren’t for me. So now I am the one you got to look to.”

And that’s the closest you’ll get except a voice from heaven comes down and says, “Just a minute soul, I’m above you. And if I didn’t put you there as that life, because I am Life, the Giver of Life, the Father of Life, the Keeper of Life, you wouldn’t be anything at all.”

So you see that we’re not here to be different. We’re here to be right. And if the voice from heaven would put everything in order, then we need a voice from heaven to put everything in order, and the Bible speaks in Hebrews 12.

And I might as well go to it, because I’m going to start rambling tonight and I’m enjoying rambling, so it’s all right. As I talk, I’m learning a few things myself. So you know that’s how it should be.

And it says here in,

Now it tells you right there that as we approach New Jerusalem, somebody from heaven is going to talk to us, and let’s be honest, when that One Jesus was on earth, spoken of by Moses, that One speaking was only the mouthpiece for the One from heaven: Jehovah Elohim.

So all right, on our Exodus egress into the holy land, the Millennium, we have heard from God Himself concerning every doctrine in the Bible, every mystery that lay within the doctrines, so that now we see face to face, eyeball to eyeball, as Paul did with God, as Moses did with God, William Branham did with God, and we now the same, know that we have been face to face with God through God’s instrument.

And now, to begin to judge or to begin to what you might call approve or disapprove, is the thing formed saying to that which formed it, “I’ve got power but you don’t.” In other words, the refusal to recognize Almighty God.

So, as we deal with this subject, I’ll be using tonight and on Sunday some things that Brother Branham said. One of which I know of no one who has ever said it, I have read no book.

And of course I’ve had no thoughts of myself, which doesn’t mean anything, because I’m not a thinker of any repute or any great ability.

So we’re not saying things tonight to be different, but we are going to look at Scripture, hopefully in the light of everything that Brother Branham taught, and be able to place it all as Brother Branham placed it.

Now, so these several Scriptures I want to deal with are verses that the Fundamentalists use, but they are not understood in the depth and clarity as we understand the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we’ll show you that.

What these fundamental Christians believe collectively, that is the cross the board Christians, and I’m talking now of Christianity in direct antithesis and competition to Mohammedism and Hinduism, and things like that, or other religions.

What they believe collectively, being Christians, is what gives them a basis for a unity amongst them, what they believe about the cross and the blood, a foundation for their churches, though they hold other doctrinal opinions in various areas.

But in this area of Good Friday, and it may be that you will be one of those that, or have been, perhaps even are tonight, one of those who say, “Now this is not right to say that Jesus was crucified on Friday. Because anybody knows as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, there is no way that you could say Friday to Saturday, that’s one day; Saturday to Sunday, is two days.”

So you haven’t got three days. Well, Brother Branham said, “That means within that time.”

But if you go to archaeology, I found this, and it was very strange but very enlightening. And it’s in the Bible.

That a part of an hour is called a whole hour, a part of a day is called a whole day, a part of a week is called a whole week, a part of a month is a whole month and a part of a year is a whole year.

So you begin to realize and check up on yourself, you will find that very definitely Jesus was crucified on Friday and rose on Sunday.

And that makes you to understand why there is only three and a half years left in the Great Tribulation. And why it’s called in the middle. You see?

And Brother Branham was the only one that understood that one half of the seven and a half years has elapsed in the ministry of Jesus Christ, called on the scene roughly thirty years of age, and roughly three and a half years ministering.

A hundred percent correct according to the truth.

So all right. These people are fundamentalists. And they definitely do believe in the birth, the death, crucifixion, resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. As a Savior of mankind with no other way.

Now whether they’re Oneness, or Trinity, or Twoness, or anything, doesn’t make any difference.

This is what you are looking at, and these all believe, they all believe that the death of Jesus, and the shedding of his Blood takes care of all sins and its consequences, and that the resurrection gives them all hope of eternal life.

Even to the extent that you don’t even have to be born again, that you really don’t have to believe very much of anything, that all you have to do is subscribe to it and as long as you come through the church that believes that, regardless of any other churches that believe and differ from you, that’s perfectly okay.

You’ll notice the division comes on other doctrines above and beyond the cross… the birth, the cross, the death and the resurrection.

There are those that are Millennious, and those that are om-Millennious. Those that believe in a rapture, pre-Millennium, post-Millennium. And yet there is a truth to it all.

Now, so we keep looking. What I have said that these churches believe across the board is the minimum foundation, and upon it they build.

And you know their doctrines then are supposed to be rooms, little rooms, but they’re not little rooms, they’re walls.

And so you’ll see amongst Christians, you’ve got maybe what? A thousand, well you’ve got literally many, many large denominations amongst the Protestants, and then literally amongst them that are not really denominations, they’re little organizations, little groups, that could number in the hundreds.

I think one time Brother Branham said nine hundred and eleven or something like that. I’m not sure. The figure doesn’t matter; the point is they have erected these differences.

But the fact of the matter is they still have their hope, the most definite hope in the forgiveness of sins through the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now of course I understand perfectly well you may be thinking, “But Brother Vayle, there are some of those that do not believe in the virgin birth; there are some of those that ignore the Blood, because they say, ‘That’s a very bad thing.’” Even to tell people they’re sinners.

What you do is look at Jesus and see his wonderful life, how he said, “Turn the other cheek,” and learn to walk with your enemy. And do all these wonderful things.

And as Paul said, “Love never fails.” “So therefore, we do not need these things.”

But you see, they still come back to Jesus. And they haven’t got any truth concerning him. So, but those folk are not fundamentalists. The fundamentalists are definitely what I said and what Christianity really stands for.

Now, no born again believer can argue that this is not a true basic doctrine, a promise. You got to admit that it is the true basic promise that God has given us in His Word, but its widespread acceptance apart from God’s covenant… it’s accepted, but we don’t accept how they accept it. See that’s the thing we’re looking at.

So, the born again believers, they can argue that this is a true basic doctrine of promise, but its widespread acceptance, now watch this, its widespread acceptance apart from God’s covenant conditions as to how this is available and conferred upon them by God is a false hope and is merely called, what people call today, a proof text salvation.

So what we’re saying, we do not disagree with them on the grounds of the cross of Calvary, the death and shed Blood for remission of sin and the resurrection. We do not disagree.

What we disagree with is we believe they have a thorough misunderstanding of the conditions, or that which is from God that we have to take and receive in order that the Blood of Jesus Christ is efficacious, that it works for us.

In other words, they bar and lay aside conditions. Now some have some conditions, we won’t go into them.

But what we’re looking at is: do we agree? Do we understand the conditions that whereon we base our hope in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, because no one can doubt for one minute that Jesus did die and He rose again. Except Billy Graham.

I heard him the other day and he said, “The Bible in a nutshell is John 3:16,” and I’m going to say actually that is a lie. Because he took it plumb out of context.

He also said, “Nobody can prove there is a God.” That’s a lie, because that proved there is a God!

So you see when Billy Graham talks all he wants about the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, washing away sins, I agree that is true!

But I do not agree what he believes and the people that follow him, have the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ washing away their sins!

Now see what I’m talking about? All right. Proof text salvation. It’s the same old thing. They say to the sinner, and you get this in all the meetings everywhere amongst the evangelicals, they have no faith in the true sovereignty of Almighty God.

And those who claim they do, do not have an understanding. No any way, shape and form.

The best they can say is, to sovereignty of God, “God predestinates upon the fact that He knew who was going to be saved.” That’s not true in the sense that they try to claim it. God knew who would be saved.

And Brother Branham said, “It was not I will choose this, reject that one, the choosing was in God Himself, because it was His Own children of His Own life that He predestinated to the New Jerusalem and where they are and everything to do with it.”

And being omniscient and full of love and omnipotent, He not only has done it and is doing it and will finally do it.

So Billy Graham was entirely wrong on that one when he tried to tell us that the gospel is John 3:16 in a nutshell. In other words, the whole Bible is John 3:16, that’s a lie.

The whole Bible is Ephesians 1:1-23. That’s your nutshell. And when he said, “You can’t prove there is a God and you’ve got to take it by faith and you go by feeling inside of you.” What if you had indigestion?

I know I’m making it sound stupid, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. You prove to me that some rare feeling or some rare hope that you have or some insight that you have, even to say, “I can tell God by nature. I can tell there is a God. I can tell how he dealt with me.” Oh can you?

Well, if God really dealt with you, it is a sovereign act wherein by the grace of God you recognized it and you testified to it. If you don’t believe me, read the Apostle Paul.

So in proof text salvation they say, “All right, you believe that… now you know you’re a sinner, that you got a need.

Now the Bible says right here, read it. Well, “God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son.” That’s right, that’s true.

And right here now it says, now right here in Isaiah, “He has borne our sins, and our sorrows, all of our sins,” that’s right.

Now then, if He’s bearing your sins, you don’t bear them, that’s right. And the first thing they say, “Well you’re saved.”

Now if you think that hasn’t been done and I haven’t tried to pull that on people, you’re crazy. Because when I was a young kid preacher the only thing I had in my heart was to be an evangelist and win all the souls to Jesus.

And I didn’t even know Who He was. That’s great isn’t it? Well, I want to introduce you to my wife. Well, who is she? Well, I don’t know, but… Well, He’s the Bridegroom, the lover of our souls.

You trying to tell about somebody you don’t know? Well, everybody tries it. See, that’s what we’re looking at when we go to Scripture in the definitive way that I try to teach it. So we’re looking at the definitive.

Now, I’m not going to further describe what I have in mind, but you’ll understand what I am saying more clearly as we look at Scripture. And the first Scripture we look at is what Paul said in,

Now, it is absolutely true: the wages of sin is death. Death to the sinner. And don’t try to blame it onto Adam.

The Bible distinctly says, “We are not judged according to Adam’s sin. We are judged according to our own sins. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Absolutely fallen short of what God wants for us.

So the wages of sin as every evangelist correctly says, “Sin pays wages.” It’s death. In other words, you work for your death. Yeah. You worked for it. You did it.

Like a guy years ago was in prison, and he was a rapist. He finally came to the place where the psychiatrist could not deal with him. He had an Oedipus complex. Driving him to do these terrible things to women.

It got to the place where a voice could even tell him what a woman’s name was, where she lived, and he’d knock on the door and say, “Well, I’m so and so and I’m a friend of…” and he named the very friend of that woman.

And she’d open the door; he’d rape her and he got to the place where he knew he’d eventually kills somebody. So he turned himself in.

And when they tried to work on him, his plea was always this: like Flip Wilson, “The devil made me do it.” It wasn’t he that did it.

I said to him one day, I said, “All right, Don tell me. Did you enjoy what you did?”

He said, “Yeah.”

I said, “You did it.”

Don’t blame anybody, don’t blame the devil, don’t blame anybody else, you get your wages for your sin which is death and you’re born in sin, shaped in iniquity.

In other words, all the propensity is there within our flesh, and yet it’s commanded us to resist the temptation. In the Ten Commandments it’s all laid out, the moral law of Almighty God.

And with God’s moral law and the Ten Commandments, He made a way of escape. Every place there was something to help that sinner. But how many sinners actually listened to it?

So it says here in the Scripture,

So therefore, God worked a way to make that life that we have in this body, eternal, even though we die, as Job said, “God will raise me up and in this flesh, in this very body of mine, though skin worms eat it all, in my flesh I’ll yet see God.”

He knew he was going to do it. And he knew it would be in the resurrection. So this is what we know God’s talking about.

Now this verse tells us unequivocally, that Jesus Christ has done something that deals with sin and its consequences and what He has done and what He is doing about this ongoing problem is here in the Word and is going to get us into heaven.

And don’t even worry about heaven. You better worry about whether you’re going to be in the first resurrection and the Millennium, which is very shortly and only 1000 years is one day in the sight of God, then very shortly New Jerusalem. The City that Abraham looked for.

All right. The answer, or truth of the Blood of the cross lies in Matthew 26:26-28.

And it says,

Now he’s telling you here a great mystery. But no matter concerning the mystery of the method. He veils methodology. He veils how it is done.

But the results are what you want. And the results are this:

No matter what you put upon “Eat My flesh, drink My blood,” no matter what you say about it, and you can guess about it, you can talk about it, no matter what you say, doesn’t change the truth of what the results are.

And whatever the eating of the flesh and the drinking of the blood means, even if it were literal, which it can’t be literal, you are looking for one thing: the forgiveness of your sins.

How it’s done is told you here, by Whom it is done, and there’s a great mystery involved in these words, but the fact is through this process you will be forgiven.

Now notice, it tells you that this is the Blood of the testament, and a testament is a will. It’s a document that guarantees whatever this person has, upon his death if your name is in that will, you’ve got it! Ha ha!

Now where does the fundamentalist go? If your name is not in that will! “Well, Brother Vayle, I’ll get a lawyer.” There are no lawyers in heaven. Per se. Not that kind of lawyer.

But you see what I’m talking about. The eating the body, the drinking of the blood, whatever that means! If we never know what it means!

He is telling you what Paul said, “Remission of sin is the gift of God.” And he says, “Now remission means forgiveness.”

So you are forgiven! And other terms come in the Bible such as justified, as though you never did it! So if you never did it, how can God be mad at you?

That’s why “Therefore we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” is not you and me having peace, it’s God’s at peace with us!

He’s not mad anymore. He can’t get angry. Can’t cast you out, can’t do a thing about you. Except love you and see you get there. And discipline you when necessary.

So all right. This scripture that I read and talked about is based upon,

Now, what in the world are we going to do about that? It doesn’t matter what it says if you don’t understand it, if you can’t see through it.

What is He talking about? He’s talking about if you actually do whatever you’re supposed to do in a symbol or reality, it doesn’t matter about that, you will be in the resurrection!

You’re guaranteed a glorified body! You’re guaranteed a communion with God Himself! Now you are in a partnership and a league with the most high: Jehovah Elohim.

So I don’t care what it means, eat His flesh and drink His blood. Now He’s got to tell me what that is somewhere. I’ve got to get to this thing. What is He talking about? I’ve got to get to it.

This is what I’ve got to have so my sins are forgiven, I can be… then when I die, I can be raised from the dead, and during the time before I die and after I die and in the great period of the resurrection and the New Jerusalem, I’m going to have a fellowship with the Son and the Father, and we’re all dwelling together, and that’s when you’re going to see the fullness of the Godhead bodily and don’t you think we’re not.

In the respect of what God says bodily. I want to kill that doctrine, that Elohim doctrine, one of these days I’ll talk more about it.

All right, now. The exact revelation of both, Matthew 26:26-28, John 6:53-57, lies in the Book of Acts.

So all right.

So all right, now He’s telling you right there, this blood right now seals in the will, so that whatever’s in the will, and your name is in the will, you got it straight from God.

Now he explains a little further. What is in that for you.

Now remember the Son of Man is the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah Elohim in Him working and doing the deeds, which vindicates the speaker, God Himself in the man, that this is truly the Word of God, this is truly the work of God, this is truly the Son of God, this is He of Whom Moses spoke, and this is Messiah, your Redeemer.

And now He’s saying, “You eat My flesh and drink My blood.” And He says here, “When you do that you’ve got eternal life; and when you got that eternal life by doing this, I’m going to bring you out in the resurrection. I’ll tell you why.”

Now listen. If His flesh is meat indeed, what’s your flesh? Meat too. Sure. You can’t have it any different.

Wasn’t He born into human flesh though different from ours? Wasn’t He called the Man from heaven? Wasn’t He called the last Adam or second Adam, whatever it is you want to call it?

I forget if it’s second man or last man, whatever it is. I always get those two mixed up. But in there it tells you that.

Now, if His flesh is meat, and His blood is drink, what is ours? It’s the same thing, but it can’t get us there! Ours is condemned; ours is shot. And the life is in the Blood.

So it’s telling you something here. He’s telling you, “I am taking your place.” Here’s where true substitution is. Now remember now, He’s going to raise you up.

As Brother Branham said, your body can go to dust and to gases. Once the Holy Ghost has filled your body, we know that in the resurrection, like Job, you’re going to come together.

As Brother Branham said, “God will create again; not by sex.”

But by doing the wonderful act of bringing the resurrection, immortality, and remember He has risen with healing in His wings, which is immortality.

And he said, “Take this Message for your healing. Take this Message for your immortality.”

Now, our flesh will not get us there and our blood will not get us there, because we’re going to die. But His body did not corrupt!

And His Blood cleansed the mercy seat. His life was accepted by God, which is known as the satisfaction of God.

Now He’s telling you right there that through Him, He is giving you the position that you want, that you have forfeited, that you have laid down, that you can’t ever get back again, but He is going to get it back for you on the principle of a body and blood proposition!

So now we’re getting to learn a little bit. Right? Okay.

Now He says here, “If you do that, you will dwell in Me and I in you.”

In other words, in plain English, “I’m getting your life, you’re getting Mine. And from now on then, you are dwelling in Me, that’s I’m your harbor, I’m your sanctifier, and I am dwelling in you. You then become My manifestation. My sons and so on.”

So now you got a principle right there. You got a principle that has to do with His body and blood that is going to absolutely put you in a position, that you as a lost child of God, a misplaced child of God, wants and can’t have without Him. And it is eternal!

It is not something that He has done and that you accept and say, “Thank-you Jesus,” and walk off.

No dice! He wants to take over! So that you are living by Him and He’s living by you. And He’s living by the Father. That makes us all one.

There’s your beautiful circle that people try to explain and they can’t do it. No Trinitarian can. Because the Trinitarian God is like an egg. He’s got a shell and a white and a yolk. Ha-ha, fooled you, it’s got a skin inside; there’s four gods.

Well, there’s just one God. Jesus can’t be His Own Father. That’s heathenism, where you see the slant-eyed baby on the virgin’s lap and she’s slant-eyed too and the caption says, “The child is the husband of the mother.”

Trinitarian and Oneness is the same dogma. It’s the same baloney, just cut different ways. The same devil’s lie, said in a different manner. All right.

Now, what I read to you right here and have talked about, Peter takes it up on the day of Pentecost and he tells the truth about it.

So let’s find out exactly what this is all about, if I’ve been lying to you, whether I’ve been giving you an understanding that isn’t in the Word of God, let’s just check it out.

It doesn’t say now they’re talking in tongues in the Parthian language, the Medes, [inaudible] and so on. The miracle lay in the ear.

And Brother Branham said that. He agreed with the few students that understood that. A few Baptists like the late John Rice. Now, all these people strangers.

How stupid can you get? A man drunk will speak a language? It’s slobbering and gibberish. Talk about spiritual idiots. People will say anything.

And because they said it, it’s spiritual. “I said it, it must be wonderful.” Hah! “Two and two are six, I said it, it’s got to be wonderful.”

What’s the Name of the Lord? “Oh we know the Name of the Lord, we’re the Hebrews.” Did they? Not any way, shape and form.

All right, keep reading.

I want to tell you something, this man was an ignorant fisherman, but you hear how he spoke under the Holy Ghost? These are fabulous words of a dynamic orator.

These aren’t the words of a tongue-tied hillbilly or little old fisherman that couldn’t get the smell of fish off his hands. Or look like some seaweed.

You couldn’t get the most brilliant person in all the world to put it like this. I wish I could preach like that.

See? Now you’ve got Jesus as Lord. Not God, not part of the Godhead, but fit to be worshipped as God, but not God.

So, Brother Branham said, “He’s God but He’s not God!” Because God’s an object of worship.

And if you can’t worship Jesus, you’re out of the Book of Revelation! Right? Certainly, they glorified the Lamb.

And if you think you’re not going to glorify the Lamb, I’ve got news for you. How are you going to glorify God? You can’t get near God without this Man. And He’s a Man, but a very different man.

Now,

Now, you’re beginning to understand now why I said the things that I said, concerning those verses that I read.

Because these verses are telling you what happened previously, so that now this is happening based upon what did happen, which was Jesus vindicated, dying upon the cross, shedding His Blood, and being raised, and the proof thereof is that God is answering back to it!

So therefore, if you have something to do with Him, you will absolutely, no matter what the mystery is, no matter what you think, right in that testament, with your name there, you will have eternal life… your sins forgiven, you will be in the resurrection, you will be in the New Jerusalem.

You will be a part of God in the sense of the flow of God, God in you and you in Him.

All right. We went with that also… 29 to 32. And it says here,

And he prophesies concerning Jesus Christ, born unto the tribe of Judah, that he would absolutely sit on the throne of his father David. Now how can he do it, if he was killed? He’s got to be raised up in a resurrection in order to do it.

And it’s the same thought that Stephen brought out, that Abraham never did receive one bit of earth upon which his feet had trod, because he wasn’t to get it. He died without owning it.

And he won’t even have it in the Millennium, because he was not looking for a bit of dirt in the Millennium, he was looking for a City which hath foundation, whose Builder and Maker is God.

So, you see, I can’t take you anywhere but to the New Jerusalem. Because the Millennium is only one day. Who wants just one day?

How can you pack eternity into one day? It doesn’t even say that God is all and all in the Millennium. He only becomes that at that beautiful Holy City, when the Pillar of Fire is over the Lamb, Who is upon the throne.

Okay, keep reading,

In other words, we saw Him in the resurrection. He did many wonderful, infallible proofs. He told us the things concerning the Kingdom.

And if you don’t believe it, “Tell me now,” says Peter, “What’s going on here? You can’t tell me. A lot of folk are very dismayed. A lot of you people think there’s just drunkenness going on here. You’re so spiritually dead, you couldn’t tell me anything, so I’m telling you, what’s going on. This, what’s going on, proves that Jesus died, He was the Messiah, and that He’s risen! You killed Him! You did it, when you thought you knew so much.”

Now he said,

And that is the promise where Jesus said, “When the Comforter is come, He will indwell you. And that will be the day when I am in you and you in Me, and we’re both in the Father.”

Now, then what is eating His flesh and drinking His blood? It’s absolutely you and me believing exactly Who He was and why He was and what He did in the shedding of His Blood and now in the resurrection, this is what you have because you dare to believe in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ!

So now anybody knows what it is to drink His blood and eat His flesh. Very, very simply. He gives His life for the sheep.

It’s a fact of telling you that Jesus Christ absolutely died as a sacrifice, so that you and I can have forgiveness of sins, which cannot come otherwise in no other way.

And that forgiveness of sins is absolutely perfect unto justification, where as though we hadn’t even done it.

And as Brother Branham said, “The blame fall all back on the devil, because you were tricked into it.”

In the meantime it fell upon Jesus as our Savior, as the Lamb without spot and without blemish and the life positively is the Word of God made real to you and me so that we become living vessels.

That’s why Brother Branham told you absolutely the Holy Ghost abides in the Word, and it’s Word upon Word that actually fills you with the Holy Ghost until the last day there’s a Bride utterly filled with the Holy Ghost, because she’s utterly filled with the Word. And believes every single thing.

Now we’re beginning to understand a bit more about the Blood of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, in plain English let me explain it to you in the words of Paul.

And this is so surprising you might say, “Well, Brother Vayle, why did you not tell us in the first place?” ‘Cause I’m long winded and I like to preach.’

If that doesn’t satisfy you, have your own understanding. Thank you that’s nice of you. Okay.

And that’s a tree that was cut down in the wilderness, the tree in the Garden of Eden of righteousness.

Now watch.

So it tells you right there. Now, there is no doubt because of the shed Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and because He was perfect and death could not hold Him, He rose. And He shed forth the Holy Spirit, His Own and the Father’s, ‘cause it’s one Spirit.

As Brother Branham said, “He shed forth His soul upon it.”

What’s the soul of Jesus any more than your soul or mine, it’s a part of God. But His is much greater, because He was the only begotten One, in Him finally the fullness dwelt.

And it tells you right here, that because of Him we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Now isn’t that exactly what I have been telling you all along here, what Peter told at Pentecost, telling what Jesus told him, bringing you the mystery a hundred percent perfect, which is surely this.

Let me look at it again here now. Yeah.

So all right. Eat His flesh and drink His blood. There is no way we could ever be baptized with the Holy Ghost. There is no way we could ever be joined back to God. There is no way we could ever have immortality.

There is no way we could have all of these things that God had predestinated and laid up for His Son. There is no way we could have it, except for the shed blood upon Calvary of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So now we’re beginning to get the whole truth as it is in Christ Jesus.

Now, let’s go to Acts 2 and begin to unravel it even more. For those that did not understand in that great day, which must have been a fabulous momentous day. You talk about a great day when it was noised abroad.

What about that day when Brother Branham stood before about five hundred thousand people in India?

There were Christians, there were Muslims, there was Hindus, there was this, there was that, God knows how many were there. The Shiites and the Janes, every form of religious life was there.

And he said, “I’ll tell you now.” He said, “Let this man blind, his eyes eaten out because he worshipped the sun, he cannot see, he’s got only sockets and no eyeballs. Now, one of you come forward and pray in the name of your god and give him his sight.”

They wouldn’t do it.

Said, “All right then, if I pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and my God gives him his sight.”

And he figured right there then this should be the great turning point. This should be the great time of the introduction of Jesus Christ. And he stood there because he saw by vision.

And he said, “In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ receive it.” The man opened his eyes and screamed!

And they all ran toward Brother Branham knowing what the Gentiles, the Christians don’t know, that God was in that man, and if you could touch that man you’d touch God and you would get help!

And they had to rescue Brother Branham. And that’s as far as that miracle went. They still didn’t have a clue.

Now, what about the day of Pentecost? “Drunken bunch of birds. A bunch of stupid idiots trying to teach us. What in the world are they trying to pull off on you and me anyway?”

But thank God there was some seed there, and when Peter said,

“He is now your superior, He is your Lord, He is your Messiah!”

And they said, “O God.”

“What are we going to do? You guys didn’t blow it, but we did.” The eleven apostles and a few hundred people. That’s all that had the Holy Ghost.

“What are we going to do? What’s going to happen?”

And Peter says, “I’ll tell you. You better get your brains right with God. Repent means to change your mind. You have been wrong all these years, you have thought wrong, you have judged wrong, everything you have done in relation to the Scripture is wrong, you don’t have it! So therefore, you better start with your minds! Open up your minds!”

“Well, Brother Vayle, I’ll open up my heart.”

Oh, good for you. Why don’t you open up your solar plexus mind? That’s where the feelings really are. Want me to teach you a little philosophy? I’m not going to bother.

I can teach you a few things, how to get rid of a lot of nerves, everything else, but just on a philosophy. Combine it with God’s Word even; make it a little bit better.

We’re not going to do that. It’s not my job. I’ve been all through that junk. I’ve been through Pentecost, philosophy, everything else. Now I’m with Jesus, Who is the Word.

Now the gift of the Holy Ghost is what you want, because this is what was purchased, making you a clean vessel, so that God could come into you. This portion of God, to give you dunamis, to give you health, the Paracletes, the One called alongside.

The One to tide you over, the Good Shepherd, the Voice behind you saying, “This is the way, walk ye therein.” The Enlightenment. The Feeder of your soul.

This is the Advocate, the Vicar, the One that stand instead of Jesus, the One that stands for you. This is the Holy Spirit. So you can have Him, and it’s a gift.

The promise is to you, Israel, Jews, your children, Jews. Afar off are Gentiles. As many as the Lord can call, both Jew and Gentile, and that takes care of it.

Notice the simplicity, and the plethora of words though, just the same, but it’s all there. Not one’s missed. Not one seed.

Untoward, my foot! Perverted is the word. Perverted. That’s iniquity. Satan perverted the Word.

“You bunch of Satan followers. You bunch of Satan led people that call yourself the children of God. That say you’re in God’s pocket, you’re the elect, you’re the ones. You’re a bunch of perverts!” Not physically now.

Although serpent seed was there, and that’s perversion. But we all got a part of that, that’s physical. But they were perverted in their religion, and their worship of God.

If it was back there in that day, before God left Israel, gave her that last call, what about today to the Gentile? Millions of more times perverted.

Because Israel only had about two different factions. We’ve got hundreds. They only had a few different thoughts.

Like one bunch said, “There is a resurrection.”

Some said, “No way.”

But today we’ve got resurrection, no resurrection, millennium, no resurrection, rapture, no rapture. We’ve got a plethora of ignorance and perversion in every single doctrine except for the Bride.

That meant three thousand souls were baptized in water, they repented, they did the first two things, and therefore God did the other thing, which was give them the Holy Ghost, which absolutely denies the Pentecostal version that you cannot receive the Holy Ghost without tarrying.

Now where did they get that? They never got that in the Book of Acts.

They got that over here in the Book of Luke. That’s the only place I can find and know anything about the word “tarry” in that respect.

And it’s verse 46-49.

You see, He told them that in the resurrection, He explained what it is to eat His flesh, and drink His blood.

Now you show me a person whose mind is not changed, and then gets forgiveness of sins. It’s impossible. It’s impossible.

Oh, people would say, “Yeah, but Brother Vayle, I had this feeling.”

I don’t care what your feelings were, I’m not stupid just because you are. Repentance means to change the mind.

And that Bible says, “Godly sorrow leads to repentance.” It doesn’t say, “Godly sorrow is repentance.”

Anymore than the sign says, “To the bus,” that that sign to the bus is the bus. Huh? Absolutely.

Godly sorrow, what do you sorrow about? Your mind begins to track all the things you did, and you begin to realize what a sleaze bag and scumbag, and filthy dog that you were. Even the best of us.

Who’ve never drunk, smoked, caroused, and done evil things like the world has done, you suddenly realize, “Oh man, in the sight of God, the Presence of God, I’m not [inaudible] I’m wrong, I’m wrong.” The mind begins to change.

The Godly sorrow works on your mind, say, “What am I going to do, what am I going to do, I’ve got to do a change, I’ve got to think, do…”

Now before you do, you’ve got to think. So you’ve got to think different. Now you see, you’re sorrowful. And that works on your mind.

But if you get sorrowful, and don’t let it work on your mind or do anything for you, you’re like a lot of people say, “Well, I’m not afraid to steal, I’m afraid I’m going to get caught.”

Now the fellow wasn’t sorry he stole, he was sorry he got caught. Come on. So you see what I’m talking about? So here we see this.

Now and He said,

He said, “Stay there till the Holy Ghost comes.” Then He didn’t from that time on say, “Now listen, you’ve got to tarry.”

Now, I don’t know anybody here except me that was Pentecostal. Frank, you were. Come on Frank, my good buddy. Anybody else? Oh yeah.

You were taught to tarry, right? Well, these Pentecostal doctrines was to tarry, and we were taught to tarry, and we believed it. But you don’t tarry.

Let me just read you a scripture whereby you do tarry, if there’s any tarrying at all to receive anything whatsoever.

So, all right. We go first of all to,

Now that’s how you tarry, one for another. That’s where tarrying takes place. It doesn’t say that you tarry for the Holy Ghost. Because if you do the first two, God is obligated to fill the cleansed vessel. Because if it’s not filled, seven more devils will come in.

So why should God cleanse you, and let you run around, run around, run around? He’d defeat His Own Word. So when you’re cleansed, completely justified, sanctified, quick process right there, piling Word upon Word.

Now, you’re born again, and the good work of God begins to move more and more.

Now, let’s go to Romans, and begin to see what it says over in Romans. Because the Pentecostals are wrong. Absolutely wrong in their teaching. I didn’t know that until years later.

All right. Let’s read here.

Now he tells you right there, the thing that you want is in your mind. So that takes repentance, that takes the Word of Almighty God.

So if you’re going to be led by the Spirit, there’s only one thing you do is know the Word of God and that’s going to lead you. And the Life within the Word will enable you. Because every one of God’s Word’s has power.

So if God said, “You don’t do so and so,” you’ve got power not to do it. If God said, “Do so and so,” right there’s the power to do it. ‘Cause His Word cannot return void, and every Word of God, no Word of God is void of power.

So if you’ve got to wait on anything, what you’re supposed to wait on is the gift ministries in the church. The pastor’s got to wait on the ministry of the pastor, the apostle on his ministry, the tongues talker on his, you wait on it.

They are not controlling elements that just take you and shake you and make you do. You wait on them, because they’re from God and now with what God has given us, we can faithfully do the ministries that God wants of us for it’s God in us, both willing and doing of His good pleasure.

And there is no limit to what God can do through us and for us if we just let Him work in and through us. And as Brother Branham said, “I’ve got a gift to get out of the way.”

And the big thing is: learn to get out of the way. See? You don’t tarry for the Holy Ghost. It’s once you get the Holy Ghost you begin to tarry. So that you keep His mind, you keep His power, and everything in you as you need to keep in you.

Okay, let’s look at 1 Corinthians 12:31, then I’m going to go back to the Blood, because I just want to throw this in here, but you see, I came out of Pentecost. Oh, man I sure did.

Now it says here in verse 31.

So, you don’t covet the Holy Ghost, that’s God’s promise to you. But if you’re going to have gifts, you covet them, you desire them, you want them for the highest purposes. So there’s a vast difference.

And as Brother Branham said, “A gift of the Holy Ghost is like me. When I give you my pen, a gift, I do not give you myself.”

So that’s what we’re looking at here. I [inaudible] [1:06:16] want to throw that in because it’s important to me.

Now, let’s go further in the Scripture concerning the cross. And the forgiveness of sin, because that is what we’re talking about of the cross of Calvary, what Jesus Christ accomplished in His death.

Not His ministry now. Not His ministry. His ministry only vindicated Who He was.

It was His death and resurrection, “I come to do Thy will O God. Lo, a body has Thou prepared for Me. Thou wilt not leave My soul in hell, neither let Thy holy One to see corruption. They wounded My hands and feet; all My bones stare at me.”

Hardly anything about the ministry, hardly anything. The ministry’s already given in Deuteronomy 18. Vindication. Jesus both began to do and to teach. “Search the Scripture, and if you don’t see that I am the Messiah, where am I missing?” See?

“Am I not the one Moses spoke of, that prophet coming and doing these things. Come on,” He said, line it up, “Are you so blind you say red evening sky, good day tomorrow. Morning lowering, red sky, going to be a bad day. You can read the signs out there, why can’t you read what I’m doing in the Bible? Why can’t you read your Bible and see it?”

Same blind, devil possessed people. Blind people. Not maybe possessed individually, but blinded across the board.

Okay. The 9th chapter of the Book of Hebrews. And notice what is says in verse 22.

Now, you can purge a lot of things. You can purge a lot of things. But there’s only one thing that forgives. And that’s the Blood.

Now, how can the Catholics talk about purgatory and talk about the Blood at the same time; they’re liars. Blood is forgiveness.

You’re purged in this life, your purgatory is the purging power of God as you face the Word and live it or deny it. You will be tested, you will be tried according to the Word. And you will be purged thereby.

The Blood forgives. Now, I realize there’s a sense of purging there, but don’t get it confused. Because it says,

So if God were to purge you and you weren’t forgiven, there’s no way that you had the Blood applied to you. Vessels are purged by washing. You can purge vessels by heat. You do a lot of things.

You can purge yourself by drinking substances, taking chelation, washing with nitre and much soap. Get rid of your lice by drowning them in oil. Purge yourself.

Nah, without Blood there’s no remission. So we’re talking of forgiveness. Forgiveness leads to justification. Justification leads to you and me receiving the Holy Ghost after we’re baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, it’s not good to simply take one verse here, you’ve got to take the context. And he’s talking about the law and how things are purged but it doesn’t mean they’re forgiven. But forgiveness depends upon the blood, a blood sacrifice for sin.

So, he’s talking about the tabernacle, and he says here,

Now eternal redemption means that you’ve been bought back, thoroughly forgiven, no way can you escape God. It’s all over as far as you’re concerned. Except you’ve got a life to live. Live it out.

An entirely new and different work. Where the Holy Ghost now comes in and Brother Branham said the baptism with the Holy Ghost makes this body, which was set here to be tempted, commensurate with the spirit body, which you bypassed. Which couldn’t sin.

And that’s simply the baptism with the Holy Ghost, whereby you’re sealed to the day of redemption. Plain English, he’s telling you,

Tells you flat in plain English, you can’t have a will that’s in effect, until the man that wrote the will dies. And then you better have the man have some iron clad way to get that to you, because crooked lawyers and the devil will rob you. Not to mention somebody else.

So what was it? Jesus died, having written his will, he rose again to make sure we got it. And what are we supposed to get? The baptism with the Holy Ghost. The sealing of God. Which brings us to one with Him and God.

And remember, He’s got half of the Kingdom, and God’s got the other half, so we come in and sit in both of it. You can’t beat that.

And remember, Jesus couldn’t give what’s not His. But we’re sharing His throne with Him even.

Now,

Now, what have you got? You’ve got every word in the Bible absolutely sure to us and with us, and for us, absolutely through the blood, God can’t do one thing but fulfill it.

Now, the Armenians don’t preach what I’m preaching. And the Calvinists don’t understand it. I’m here telling you the truth. Because I learned under a prophet, who was vindicated.

Well, wasn’t Jesus full of the Holy Ghost? And isn’t the Bride? Show me where one member of the body is different, except in the magnitude of the office.

Because if He took a body, not identical to ours, only a part of it as the Scripture says, that was through Mary, nourishing the egg and the sperm, and we now are given a body exactly like His, then we would have to have the Holy Ghost. And we do.

It’s all one of God now, through the shed blood upon Calvary.

He says,

No way the Holy Ghost can come in. No way you’re reconciled. No way you’re bought back. None of those things. See? Tells you that, absolutely…

Now how far do we want to read? Oh well keep reading.

So therefore, the Blood of Jesus Christ doesn’t only reach from the earth, it reaches to the highest heavens, and encompasses every single thing pertaining to God and His children. Talk about complete reconciliation.

Not only now, do we have the baptism with the Holy Ghost, sealed into these promises. Not only all of these things are ours, He in us and we in Him, and the circle complete.

But notice what He’s doing. He’s the testator of His Own testament, making sure that we get it all. According to the Word. Now that’s the Blood of the cross.

Now if He was crucified from before the foundation of the world, prophetically, and it took place in A.D. 33 ½. From the foundation of the world,

He hath appeared. He appeared to do it back there. What’s He appearing today to do for us? What’s God doing in human flesh today for us?

Appearing in the Son of man ministry, revealing Himself, by the Shout, Resurrection, ascent to the Lord’s Supper.

What He’s doing right now? He’s getting us ready for the Millennium, and on to the New Jerusalem.

And it tells you right there, He’s not coming with the sin offering, He’s not coming with that any more.

He’s coming with the fruits of it all, which absolutely means, Matthew 12, standing right here to take us right on to victory and into the Millennium.

Okay, now we read Hebrews 9:1-28. And this is the entire record, the blood, from Genesis to Revelation, wherein we read in Genesis, according to,

The blood that covered Abel was the blood of a lamb. And Abel’s blood spoke from the ground. But that didn’t do anything for anybody. And yet it was the righteous one that Cain killed.

Because remember, that this boy, even though his mother sinned, was still the true seed of Adam, and of the flesh of Eve, which were genuine human beings, created form, breathed on by God, the living souls, brought forth this one.

And there were more like him, Seth also followed along that line. But that blood didn’t do it.

But I’ll tell you what did do it, and it’s over here in,

So there was blood shed as Abel shed the blood for the sacrifice, his own blood was shed, speaking, believing in the righteousness of God, accepting what God wanted from him, and now these are people here, and the Great Tribulation, the very last ones saved, coming out, their robes washed in the Blood of the Lamb.

So you’ve got blood from Genesis to Revelation and that blood is the only way people can be forgiven, not only for what they have done, but now on the ground of what they are and who they are, which they cannot account for, because you didn’t dictate your own birth, you didn’t ask to be here. But everything is wiped away so you come under the blood.

Now here is where we find Brother Branham’s complete statement of fact that I am leading up to. And that’s what this message is about. What Brother Branham said.

“How can you make a man a sinner, when the Blood of Jesus Christ scatters sin until you can find no evidence of it?” That’s one thing he said. “How can you make a man a sinner, when the Blood of Jesus Christ scatters sin? Until you can’t find any evidence?”

Now the point is, the Blood of Jesus Christ does not do that universally. It’s not that it couldn’t, but it doesn’t.

Because people all tell you, “You got to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior.”

I want to ask you a question. Which Jesus Christ?

“Well, He’s the second person of the Godhead.”

Forget it, I don’t want that. He’s no high priest to me, because He’s not a man. “Well, He became a man.” Don’t give me that stuff. Then I’m God.

No, you’re not going to… you listen. You stick with this Word and you be definitive. And you know where you stand and you say what you stand.

Right now the little saying going around you know, that we’re foolish people to talk the Word, you know, just talk the Word.

We’re not like the Seventh Day Adventists. We’re not like that Jehovah Witness and that bunch out there.

We’re saying the right thing, because God’s listening to every man and by your words you shall be condemned, and by your words you shall be justified.

And if they’re not the words of Jesus Christ, you and I don’t have any justification, because justification lies in Him and what He did and He did it all and He was according to the Word. He was the Logos of God and don’t you dare say otherwise.

Again, Brother Branham said, “The Blood perfects the Bride.”

Again Brother Branham said, “The bleach of the blood destroys every evidence of sin.” Throwing it back to its original concepts.

Again, Brother Branham said, which everybody teaches, little evangelicals teach, “When you look at a red thing through a red glass, suddenly it becomes white.”

And Brother Branham said, “Looking through the Blood of Jesus Christ upon our red sins, there’s nothing but white.”

As the Bible said, “You believe in Jesus, I’ll make your sins as white as snow.”

Again, Brother Branham said many things. He made hundreds of references and testimonies to the bleach of the Blood, showing us that judgment for sin and of sin by the Blood leaves the sinner perfectly clean and free from sin as pertaining to the atonement for the soul.

Now watch what I said as pertaining to the atonement for the soul. “Don’t fear him that destroy the body, but fear him who can destroy both body and soul in hell. I will not leave My soul in hell,” no, and His body wasn’t left in the grave.

And those whose souls are not clean and white through the Blood of the Lamb, will they and their bodies go to the grave and to Hades. And Hebrews 9 we read where Paul showed it, we already read that.

Now, Paul also shows the Blood of Jesus Christ to obviate the works of sin. He shows that over here in Romans. We just maybe take one verse.

And it says in,

What are they covered by? They’re forgiven by and covered by the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, because the same Paul that said this cannot change his mind.

He said, “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.”

And in Hebrews 9, I read the whole delineation, how that forgiveness and obliteration comes through the Lord Jesus Christ.

And again in Romans 3:21 it mentions:

And how come there’s no law? Because the blood overcame it. Calvary cross is what took away the law. Now, maybe I can find that for you over here.

I wish I’d have made a note of it, ‘cause I tell you, it’s hard for me to find Scripture when I don’t know just where it is.

Well, if I had a concordance I could do better. I can’t put my finger on it here. Oh, I’d love to read that to you. Oh, here it is in Colossians.

All right, now.

Well, now if you’re quickened with Him and forgiven, they’re under the blood. And if they’re quickened, they’re full of the Holy Ghost. Now watch what he said.

Now, right there your legalists and your Seventh Day Adventists say, “Well, I’ll tell you what Jesus did, He got rid of the Old Testament law, the washing of pots and pans, of… you know, not working on the Sabbath day, of cutting your beard a certain way, and doing this and doing that.” That’s a lie.

That was not against you, that was for you. When you washed those pots and pans, and you did this and didn’t do that, that was for you.

What was against you? The moral law of the Ten Commandments! That’s what he died for. Rotten inside and doing rotten things. And disobeying God. That’s what was against us.

I want to ask you a question, if you don’t believe that. What if I had the authority, or Brother Branham was here, and he said, “All of you people listening. Tomorrow morning, don’t set your clocks one hour ahead. Set your clocks two hours ahead! And beseech God for two solid hours and everything in your life that you hate and disrespect and knew God doesn’t like, just leave you like that.”

You’d say, “I’ll take four hours a day to do it. ‘Cause it’s for me.”

See, what I’m trying to tell you? Come on, let’s not be babies and sick little individual in understanding, but let’s have the truth.

That what was against us: thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear the Name of the Lord thy God in vain; right down the road, ten solid commandments.

And he that offends in one point of the law is guilty of them all. Every single one. Judge the sinner before Almighty God. Because sin is in the heart and the mouth speaks it, and the hands and the feet do it.

Feet swift to shed blood. Throats like open sepulchers, spewing out bitter, rotten things. Minds full of clap trash and balderdash, and filthy, non-pertinent things.

Men lusting and living like animals. Brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed. That’s what the Blood of Jesus Christ covered. But that little old thing of washing pots and pans and doing… that was for you.

Now let’s be honest today. Isn’t it much easier just to sit back and say, “Well, I’ll wash the pot and pan here. And I’ll do this on a certain day. And I’ll do that over here.”

Oh, yeah, if we could do that. You know why? Because our conscience. The Holy Spirit speaking and saying, “Watch it, that’s not right.” The voice behind you saying, “That’s the way, but that isn’t the way.”

I want to tell you something. There’s only one way that you and I ever, ever, ever get to that place, is through the Holy Spirit dwelling in that Word, and in our minds, and our spirits down in our hearts, and just saying, “Lord, I believe. That’s my way.”

And I’ll tell you, that’s where the rest and peace is and that’s where the power of God lies, is in actually what Jesus Christ did for us and gave…

Now, let’s understand this.

It is not merely that we acknowledge the shedding of blood for the forgiveness of sin, which is an actual fact of history, and a spiritual event of cleansing even the heavens, as we have read, but we must accept it personally as the hand of the sinner on the head of the sacrificial lamb, and eat the flesh thereof, even as he was required to do, showing that we are now part and parcel of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the death and blood of Christ on the cross.

Identified as Brother Branham said, “Generically, not psychologically.”

Now here we go to the step where the Fundamentalists never go. The limited atonement. When Jesus died, the Bible said in one place, “He has no seed.”

Another place it says, “He shall see His seed.” Another place said, “He has a generation for a seed.” And a generation means a beginning.

And the beginning of eternal life from Adam to everyone is in Jesus Christ our Lord. And He’s going to see every single one, though He did not foster anyone by the process of breeding. But they are His children.

As Brother Branham said, “We were in Him; we were in God.”

And that is why God said to Jesus, His Son, “Let us make man in Our image.” And why did He say “Our image”? Because Jesus is the image of God.

And so He said, “Both of Us are the image, and we will make Adam in Our image.”

And so therefore you know positively that Jesus would one day have to have hands and feet and arms and legs and eyes and heart and kidneys and nose and be a man, because what’s in that life has to manifest exactly what it is in the physical, because the physical is the Logos of what is in the inside, or the expression thereof.

“Let Us make man in Our image.” And He redeemed every single son. As in Adam all died, even so, in identical manner, will each one be made alive in Christ.

As I had nothing to do with Adam, but I died in him, I had nothing to do with Jesus, either, in the same way.

But I was in Adam, and I came forth here as a sinner, but I was in Him, and I come forth as a glorious child of the living God. Identical manner.

Grace had nothing to do with it. I just got to be a recipient and rejoice in it, and that’s what brings forth the beauty. Identified. Absolutely identified.

Over here in Romans 3, and I’m going to take my time, because as soon as we get through, we’ll take Communion and foot-washing, because I don’t have to preach on the blood, I’m doing it. If you didn’t recognize it, well, I’m telling you.

All right.

Through the Blood of the cross. Every single thing I read about is yours and mine. Every single thing. Can’t get by it, the blood does it. The blood does it. He shed His blood.

There you are. You’ve got faith in His blood? You believe His Blood did that? You got to believe that.

What I’m telling you tonight, you’ve got to believe that. See? Scatters so there’s not evidence. Falls back on the devil.

Now that’s true. Every single sin is under the Blood. Now from this time on, we’re to walk in the light. But that’s all right.

In other words, we simply accept what is said. And I’ve been telling you as much as I can about it, because Brother Branham has taught us.

But hold it, how does he do it? Through the Blood of the cross.

You don’t just mouth off, say, “Well, I’ve been justified, hallelujah.”

Say, “Just a minute. How were you justified?”

“Well, how was I?”

“By the Blood.” And God accepted that Blood.

Now if God didn’t accept the sacrifice, where are you? He didn’t accept Cain’s sacrifice, so where was he? Cain ended up fighting God and spitting in His face.

Proving he’s a child of the devil, because after the White Throne, the devil gathers all of his seed, and they come against the holy encampment and try to spit in God’s face and kill the Bride. Come on, serpent seed.

You know, this gets so clear, everything Brother Branham taught us, that is crystal clear as a pool of water that you can see down sixty feet, or a hundred and sixty, or to the bottom, and see the fish swimming. Make no mistake about it.

And it said,

Well, where do you get that blessing? Jesus Christ shedding His Blood on Calvary. You don’t get it any other way. Now listen get your thinking lined up, too many years we’ve had a wrong philosophy and a wrong teaching as I’ve told you.

I’ve been saying the right things for years and years, concerning that we are a part of God, our soul came from Him, but positively wrong on identification except in the respect of identifying seed against seed, and placing myself there, but I was using identification, like the theologians, substitution, which is merely psychological!

Now, I’m eighty-four years old, and a half. Don’t forget the half, because that’s a long time in a year, six months. And I’m still not too bright.

I’m still finding a lot of things, oh, yes, a lot of things that I knew but I didn’t know, I had, but it wasn’t in the harmony of the harmony.

All things of God. In Him, in you, and in Him. That’s Jesus in us, we in Him, and all in God. The harmony of the Word.

Oh, listen my friend, even though you know a lot about a carburetor, what it does to the car and you can’t fix it, you got a lack of something.

So, that’s why I say, Brother Branham said it, “If ten people at one time, one room, ever thought the same thoughts, really had an understanding, there would be a rapture.” 

You can see why and what we’re talking about now.

So all right. Now with that we go in,

What promise? The baptism with the Holy Ghost, because without the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you ain’t going nowhere.

So the Blood identifies you, puts you in your position as being a cleansed vessel, God now fills you with the Holy Ghost, and you’re on your way to the holy City.

And remember, it’s not the Millennium we’re looking for. It’s the holy City! Because the Millennium according to Peter is one day, and a thousand years is as one day, so the Millennium is a thousand years, that’s only one day in eternity, that’s a blip of a flea’s eye, what we’re looking at. We’re looking at the New Jerusalem.

Romans 5:

So, now when you understand this and know you’re born again, you can begin to rejoice in reconciliation. I am reconciled to God, God is not angry with me, God cannot get angry with me, He is my Father, all He’ll do is correct me. Because He loves me. And He won’t lose me.

This is what it is to know that you’re under the Blood! Because this is the testament!

Now remember, the Blood of the testament! The Blood of the Word! The Blood cinches the Word of God to you and me and God cannot lie! And His Word cannot return to Him void!

And when He said to Adam, “Take it all over, take it over,” His word cannot return void, He has to bring Adam back in the Millennium! Blood.

The Blood of the cross is the covenant. How much faith do we have in it? This is not just factual brother/sister, this is living reality.

Okay, we said 5:10-11 but we also go to verse 18.

And it says,

What does pots and pans under the law got to do with your conscience or bother you, because you did it? It’s the moral law, the Ten Commandments.

Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. Thou shall love only the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou worship. Thou shalt not bear the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. Think no ill to your neighbor.

Those are the things, my brother, my sister, never mind about a washing of a pan, and putting nails in your shoes, and taking a calf out of a ditch. Forget that kind of stuff. Forget that. Get that other thing right.

And that’s what we see has been dealt with through Jesus Christ our Lord. Righteous for the unrighteous. See?

And remember, He’s alive seeing the efficacy of His Blood and the promise of work of grace by the Holy Ghost through the Word, is in our lives!

That’s why Brother Branham said, “When you think Bride, and you think getting out of here, I don’t care if there’s a hundred people right next to you, and only one’s going to make it. You believe you’re that one!” I’m getting out of here!

You say, “I’m presumptuous.”

Oh come on. Would a prophet make you presumptuous? The prophet is here so you are not presumptuous. Because he said, “Presuming is not right.” That is treading without authority.

So would he give you something presumptuous without authority? By no means. This is authoritative. And that’s what I’m trying to get across to us by the grace of God.

So we find that Christs’ Blood of the Cross  is genuinely a fact of history and is only the hope or the only hope of Gods forgiveness and divine provision of eternal life in the Kingdom.

Why? Because essentially we were for it, died in Adam, led astray, sinned on our own, now who’s going to help us, what’s it going to take to get us on the track? Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what it is.

No wonder the Catholics go around saying, “Well, we have some drops of blood in a little tube, Jesus’ blood.” Oh, don’t they wish they did.

How many Jews would like to believe the lost ark, Raiders of the Lost Ark? Hah, hah, hah. I don’t care two bits for any ark of the covenant.

‘Cause my covenant is in heaven sealed by Blood, and mediated by Jesus Christ the risen One, and let me tell you, one risen person as I’ve said before, one immortal person on this earth, traveling quicker than the speed of thought, could *discombobulate every single warhead.

Could drive every person crazy. Could make you think you saw what you didn’t see, though you really saw it. But you can’t believe it, so you go nutty thinking about it. Raving mad, they’d be jumping off of buildings; they’d be diving in the ocean.

One person could do more damage than the Great Tribulation. Course He’s not going to do it, He’s not interested. Why would He want to do something like that? Not interested, see?

[* Discombobulate – To throw into a state of confusion.]

Now, it is the first step, it is the first and only step toward reconciliation and restoration.

We read that over here in,

Complete reconciliation now brings the process of the life-giving powers of the Christian life by the Holy Ghost.

Again, in Colossians 1, we’re talking about the Blood, brother/sister, don’t you ever forget it. This is what Jesus did, the perfect sacrifice.

Look what He did. He settled the heavens once and for all, so that now there’s nothing up there but pure righteousness, and that Kingdom going to come upon earth, manifested in the New Jerusalem.

“Well, Brother Vayle, I got to be a better person.”

Oh, sure you got to be a better person when it comes to morals and walking in the light, I don’t argue that. But you can’t be a better person no matter what you do, than what Jesus did for you.

Because it says right here, “In the body of His flesh, through death, to present you.”

Present you to whom and where? The Almighty God at the White Throne. Holy, unblameable, unreproveable, in His sight. He can’t see you, anything but just like Himself, because of the blood.

In other words, He only sees the part you are, which is a part of God.

And what is the gospel? It’s not what people think it is, it’s the Gospel of God, which means, what did God say? What did He do? How did He do it? What are the conditions we enter into it? And I’ve been answering all that tonight.

Now if you believe that, you’re all right. And if you move away from it, you never had it in the first place.

So you’ve only got one hope, stay with this Message and see what happens. Believe it. Don’t have any doubts, don’t have any fears, stick with it.

And Paul said, “My gospel.” God’s gospel. The gospel of Jesus. It’s all one and the same. God giving us His Word, revealing, manifesting Himself, through a vindicated prophet.

So when the prophet came, I eyeballed God when I eyeballed the prophet.

“Oh” you say, “Brother Vayle, you say terrible things.”

No, you don’t understand me. You don’t understand me. God was in the prophet. It was God’s eyes… God was using His prophet’s eyes; they were God’s eyes. It was the prophet’s mouth God was using; therefore it was God’s mouth. God’s words, and what God did.

And therefore I had before me, God revealed in the way which God said He would reveal Himself, and I looked at eyeballs. I watched His expression. I heard His words. I took His instruction.

So if you want anything different, you go ahead. William Branham wasn’t God, but he certainly was God to me, and he’s God to you. Because that is the Scripture.

So, it says right here now, he said, “Oh you foolish Galatians. Why have you been so removed from my gospel? Why have you left my teaching?”

Well, the point they left their teaching, they left it, is because they weren’t able to say “Amen” to every word that was preached like Paul preached it and Brother Branham preached it.

To superimpose on their thinking everything Paul said, and everything Brother Branham said, they couldn’t do it because it wasn’t in them.

As Brother Branham said, “If you didn’t have representation then, up there, you don’t have it now.”

Which shows the limited atonement. He died for the many. God so loved the world, He gave His Only Begotten Son. But there’s two kinds of worlds, don’t forget that. The world of the ungodly, as well as the righteous. That’s in the Bible.

Peter says, “The world of the ungodly.”

Oh yeah. Oh hey, learn to read your Bibles. I could take something right here that Brother Branham said. And I wonder if three people would catch it. You know why? You don’t read. You just think you read.

For too long a horse has been a cow. Too long people have stuffed people’s ears with wrong, with nonsense. So they can’t hear the truth.

Man comes here and by his conversation, a woman comes, a child comes, anybody can come, and by their conversation, oh, you’re sure they understand the Presence. No way.

The Presence is, “Well, He’s with all of us. Well, we’re all a part of God. Well, He’s been here all the time.” Uh-uh. Exodus to egress. Out of and into. That’s Presence. Who’s doing it? Elohim. Yeah. Elohim.

Okay, now. Thus we learn that the atoning Blood, as far as this work of redemption concerning every seed of God has a finality. It means it is over. It is ended. That soul cannot be lost.

So listen to,

What are you going to do about that one? Well, they say, the Legalist said, “Well, you can stop following Him.”

Bible doesn’t say that, it said, “They follow Me.”

“What do you mean ‘follow Me’?”

“That where I am, there you may be also.” The guarantee. The guarantee of the Kingdom.

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth.”

No way, except for the Blood. No way. Not at all possible. Because the Blood makes way for that which is authoritative, to have that Kingdom on earth, which is number one: the baptism with the Holy Ghost and number two: a resurrected body.

But there is something else we now consider.

If this Blood is so efficacious and bleaching out sin and causing God Himself to view us as sinlessly perfect, according only on the merits of that Blood, for time and eternity, even to the dwelling as to His Own righteousness, that’s in us, in His Own Personal Presence, what kind of blood is it?

So, if that Blood does that, what kind of blood could do that? Well, Brother Branham told you in ‘Identification’. It had to take one special and more than we are as children of God to merit it for us.

And here again is the great fallacy of all Christians. Whether oneness or trinity, according to Acts 20:17-28. And I won’t read it all to you, because you know that chapter anyway. It deals with the elders who go astray.

And here’s what he says, verse 26.

“I’ve told you every single thing God wants you to know. Every single thing you need to know. Nothing has been excluded. I’ve given it to you. It’s all in your hands. As far as I’m concerned, it is over.”

When Brother Branham left this earth, it was over. All left to do was for people like you and me is just to teach it.

Now listen,

So now, we have the Blood of God. Now, listen to me, you’ve heard me preach, what is? Two hours about now? Huh? Well, that’s fine, get the third one ready.

You’ve heard me preach all this time and I have told you the merits, and I have told you what it’s done, and I have proven by Scripture, and the question then comes, what blood is this anyway? What is this?

Well, you say, “It’s the Blood of Jesus Christ.” That’s not sufficient! Not sufficient.

Except on this condition, and Brother Branham’s the first man ever brought it to my attention. And I believe to yours. The Blood of God is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

He says right here, and this cannot be a lie, because it is true, “To feed the church of God, which He purchased with His Own Blood.”

The church of God was purchased by the Blood of God, we know that Jesus did it, it was His Blood that flowed, and therefore it was the Blood of God.

Now, let’s find out from the scripture. It is in Luke 1:35. And again we begin to quote Brother Branham as he taught on Godhead.

In verse 35.

The dunamis of God, which is omnipotence, working only on the grounds of omniscience, started the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. “God Himself created,” as Brother Branham explained, which nobody has ever explained. That Paul himself did not explain.

That nothing in the scripture here by the scribes have explained. Only the prophets have told it, but they never told it so that we could get it. Only in the first church age, and it’s not written in the epistles. So we couldn’t get it.

But Brother Branham tells us the truth. That God created the sperm and the egg and then He wrapped Himself in them.

Which lets me and you to know that it was the very life of God that infused the life in the egg and the sperm; the life in the egg only to be fresh and able to receive on the grounds of the fact that it was not dead and rotting, and the sperm, God being the sperm donor, because the male is the one that gives life, so that the very essentiality of the traits, and the Godhoodedness and Godheadedness, would be in that sperm and egg, that life, to bring forth those traits which would absolutely be the image of God in flesh, and The Son of God, making Him the blood of God, because the life is in the blood!

So therefore, He is the Blood of God. Therefore when He died and shed His Blood, we had absolute perfection.

Take away every sin, so that God could look down upon us, as I read over here in Colossians, which you heard me say absolutely so perfect.

It says here,

Down that road you will find and I will find, in the resurrection and at the great New Jerusalem, that every single thing that’s in this Word, that is said about the blood of Jesus Christ and how it’s applied to us, and what it does for us, and receiving the baptism with the Holy Ghost, even though we live in a state of error, backslide a thousand times a day, and we sin a thousand times a day, Brother Branham just using that as terms to let you know what goes on.

Absolutely, you will find yourself, that when you get more and more from the shadow to the reality, on… what does it say? Here it is here, unblameable, holy, unreprovable.

Just like Jesus Christ. Just exactly what a son of God would be. Just exactly what God wanted. Just exactly. That’s exactly what you and I now have. And the shadow’s getting closer, the negative to the positive.

And when we awake, those of us who go on, we will awake in His likeness. Perfect satisfaction. Absolute reality. This is what we have now and this is what we are asked to believe, because it is the truth.

So, what we read over here in Acts 20:28, is the Scripture of Luke 1:35, a revelation by vindication, is what Brother Branham said.

God created the sperm and egg and wrapped Himself in it and brought forth that body for Jesus, which God indwelt at the river Jordan. How perfect.

Even as it says over here in 1 Peter. And we’re winding down, so don’t get too alarmed. You’ve got tomorrow off. You can do what you want with that.

And don’t you know those are elements? And science tells us that they can’t be corrupted? But they can be, they’re going to be annihilated. Dissolved.

Now, you’re back to that Word body that you missed! Now you’re a Word body by the Holy Ghost. Charged with the energies and power of God, whatever gifts He may want to give you.

Now he says, spora, because,

Right through decay and your body going to gases, through flames and fire, bringing your right back to glorification, which you never had in the first place.

That’s why the Bible said, the invisible man, the inner man, he’s not perishing, the outer man is, but the inner man looking at the things which are not seeing, becomes greater and greater to the glory of Almighty God.

So get your eyes, brother/sister, on the revelation. Talk the revelation. Never mind what your eyes see, or your senses see. That’s not what counts.

Oh, I know we’re fallible and we’re a little bit wrong in those ways, but don’t let that get you down, just keep going on.

And remember when you talk about the blood, Revelation 13 says, “He was crucified from before the foundation of the world.” From no foundation to the foundation.

In other words, New Jerusalem could not be there except for the blood of the Lamb.

You might say, “Well, to yourself, you know Brother Vayle, I wonder why it is that God took this process?”

Why do you have to wonder? Faith does not ask questions. Faith does not ask questions. Faith believes. Say not in thine heart, “Who shall bring Him again from the dead?”

Don’t… well, you say, “Well, if He died, if God died, who can raise God?” Well, God didn’t die.

“If Messiah died, He’s gone.”

No way, resurrection. Say not in thy heart, “Who?” Say not in thine heart, “Why?” Don’t question God.

Faith does not question. Faith ignores the negative and looks at the positive. Faith ignores what is against you and looks to what is for you.

You cannot have one mouthful of food and your hunger taken care of, or assuage by the food you don’t have.

But believe me, one mouthful of the food you do have, is what you need. So don’t look at that negative, look at the positive.

Now. So, going here to John, the last book of the gospels. And I think we’ll go right to the first chapter. And I know you’re getting tired, but don’t let that bother you, if you think you’re tired, what about me?

I got one eye here that feels like a piece of wood. And the other’s not that much better, so you just sit there and be happy that you’re not like me. In every way, shape and form.

Now notice what it says here in John 1, beginning at verse 29.

Now, I want to watch and show you something here. You’ll notice that he said, “Behold the Lamb of God.” And he didn’t explain one thing about it, except He takes away the sin of the world.

But what did he say He took it away for? That they may be full of the Holy Ghost.

Now if you are truly under the Blood, the Holy Ghost must answer to that Blood, I showed you that in Hebrews 10. Must come back upon you.

From that time on you are sealed to the day of redemption. You’re sealed to this very hour when the Holy Ghost plays out, where Brother Branham said, “Justification gives way to sanctification, and sanctification to baptism with the Holy Ghost, the baptism with the Holy Ghost to the Holy Ghost Himself.”

Elohim in Himself. Right to this day. Sealed in. The next thing is what? Rapture. And the Kingdom of God upon earth. And that is not the Millennium. That’s the step to the Millennium.

Because the Kingdom of God on earth has to become… God becomes all and in all, it’s all back to God. And that does not happen till after the White Throne Judgment, when the Son hands the Kingdom back to the Father.

And the Pillar of Fire is above the Lamb on the throne, the Bride and the hundred and forty-four thousand around the throne, and before they call, Elohim answers. Okay?

In John 6:57, he says,

John the 14th chapter, I don’t have to comment on these, I already have.

Now, we go back again. One more a little bit back here.

And in,

So, you’re looking then at the Blood, of which Paul calls the Blood of God. You’re looking at that Blood, which had to be or we could not have what we have.

So, this is our message, which is the Blood of the Cross. And where we read in Isaiah, and I won’t read it to you, because you already know it.

And in there it tells you, “Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”

And the point is, if you don’t believe, you’ll never get the revelation. You’ve got to believe. And today we start with the prophet, the vindicated prophet, and therefore we believe what he said.

And I’ve taken every thing I could from what the prophet said and brought it to you, because this is the very truth. We are now at the very place where John was. John the revelator.

Although we cannot say what John said, because that was two thousand years ago, but we can say it in the light of what John said back there, has repeated today.

And John said in,

Now Brother Branham categorically said himself in the 2nd verse and not the 1st.

In the 1st verse, John said, “We ate with Him, we slept with Him, we handled Him, we know He was put in the grave, when He came forth He fed us, we were with Him.”

And Brother Branham said, “Even though they said that, and even though Peter knew that He was the Son of the living God, and these men knew great things, to Paul was given the revelation which they didn’t have.”

So if you want to look back two thousand years, don’t do it. You look to the 2nd verse.

In other words, the same ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, according to Matthew 12, has returned to this earth, wherein Brother Branham said that God was obligated to do for the Gentiles what He did for the Lord Jesus Christ… through the Lord Jesus Christ for the Jews, and He’s doing it now right here, in the Son of man ministry, through our prophet, the Elijah for this hour.

Now, you want to go one more step? In Revelation 1:12, beginning.

Now the same Jesus Christ that rose from the dead is still alive. And He’s on the Father’s throne right now, the Father having abdicated temporarily.

And right now today, there’s complete fulfillment of that one, and He is that… I won’t take you to it, but it’s in Revelation 5:6-7, you will find that He is that One and He’s the Lamb.

And you will find in Revelation chapter 20, in the New Jerusalem they’re going to find that He is that Lamb that is on the throne.

Right down the line, you’re going to find, every single thing that Brother Branham taught and the Bible taught us, and Brother Branham corrected all the errors, is a hundred percent correct.

And as an old Scottish Presbyterian minister once said to a young preacher who was going on their ministry, he said, “Son, make much of the Blood.” I doubt if that man knew the wisdom of his statement.

I doubt if in his day he understood, though I have no reason to doubt that he knew it very, very well, that he was perhaps far above average, that he understood something that many others didn’t.

But that man could not understand what you and I know through the prophet’s vindicated Message.

And I say, following that old Scotch Presbyterian, or at least Reformed Church, got to be one of them, under Knox somehow, that great old man. When he said, “Son, make much of the Blood.”

Make much of the Blood, because it’s the Blood that made the much of you, and brought about the door of entrance to the majesty of the Kingdom of Almighty God.

Both now and forever more and eternity is a long, long time. And the Lamb signifying His death, the wounds, is on that throne.

So let us remember this, the Blood of the cross and Good Friday.

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we’ve taken a long time tonight with this message, thinking perhaps it would be shorter than it was, but even then, we could have read, oh, so many more Scriptures.

But Father, the main thing we need to know, is what the prophet brought us by the true revelation of that Blood of Who carried that Blood. Who was designated as the very Blood of God.

Who Himself shed that Blood, in Whom there was that life, which was that life of God that came forth. Which we are privileged to have today, to seal us into the Kingdom, having been thoroughly forgiven and now are in a position to be presented holy, unblameable, unreprovable.

What a fantastic thing that is, Lord, to know that, to know that salvation which we have read about. All accomplished through grace, and Your Own instrumentality.

Unto You we ascribe glory and may Your Name be exalted, Father, as we partake of these emblems. How much we should esteem this little rite, and ordinance that You have left to the church and left to us.

For even You Yourself said, “I will drink it anew in the Kingdom.” You Who rose, Jesus, and ate, as Brother Branham said, a fish sandwich with the disciples, proving You are alive from the dead, a Millennial Man.

The first One. The One standing there, the leader, the David upon the throne to come. You ate that sandwich, Lord; You ate food with the disciples. But, You promised in the Kingdom the drinking of the wine, showing forth the Blood that was shed.

May we recognize that, Father, recognize it above everything else. No matter what we believe we see, or believe what is lying in store for us, and actually know what is lying in store for us. It was purchased through the precious Blood of Christ.

Father, I’m asking this for everyone in this building tonight, because we don’t want anything to be underestimated. We know we cannot overestimate this, we can look at it and know what has been said, and it is the truth, it is not vague, it is reality.

Help us to accept it. So that in accepting the absolute true mechanics, Your Spirit will dynamize it to the reality that we have seen tonight in this Word.

We give You glory in the Name of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.